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After a hugely sucessful inaugural dinner this past August, we have a super-special early Christmas gift for you...nti's Linda Broughton and Girly Geekdom's Maz Hardey will be hosting Leeds' second Girl Geek Dinner on Wednesday 3rd December 2008, this time around at the newly opened The Loft Leeds!
so what's a girl geek dinner anyway?
where can i register?
where will the dinner take place?
who'll be coming?
even chinwag is talking about us :)
The evening will be informal, friendly and chilled. For just £15, you can enjoy some drinks, Christmas-y nibbles and the chance to hang out with the city's brightest creatives, technologists, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketeers, PR professionals and creative & digital girls - yeh yeh, we'll have a smattering of boys too ;)
the evening's speakers will include...
katie lips; is Katie Lips is a Social Media strategist and emerging
technologies consultant at Kisky Netmedia and cofounder at Treasuremytext.com. Katie is an experienced creative strategist and helps organisations and people to harness the power of social opportunities online as a natural marketeer; many of her projects reach and engage large audiences through their interactive strategies. Originally from an Arts background she’s perhaps not a typical Girl Geek, but Katie fell in love with the Internet and is now a passionate advocate for all things digital.
Her clients include FACT, British Film Institute, International Centre for Digital Content, the Health and Safety Executive, Holidaybreak and Unilever Plc. Her maverick and entrepreneurial approach saw her cofound Treasuremytext.com helping to redefine the relationship between mobile and web platforms and innovating in terms of product design and business strategy. Treasuremytext is now well known in the mobile industry and attracts many thousands of users from all over the world.
In December 2008 as well as peaking at the Girl Geek Dinner, she'll be launching The Amazing iPhone project, and helping to organise Barcamp Liverpool. Katie often delivers seminars and talks on Social Media and how an open approach can help businesses and public sector organisations communicate smarter; at GGD Leeds she will share her insights into how we’re all embracing this new openness. “We’re all geeks nowadays!”
monica tailor; is the Marketing Director for Leeds-based web design and development
agency kilo75 whom pride themselves on building businesses online. Monica's primary role is to define and deliver growth strategies for Internet based businesses. Monica has worked in new media since 1999 and over the past nine years has worked on Internet projects with the likes of Apple, Cisco, Unilever and Vernons.
Do tell your friends, Girl Geek Dinners are open-invitations events and we'd love for you to tag your blog posts and photos as... leedsgirlgeek
6-9pm @ the loft leeds on cross york street
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